A digital "anti-menu" of everything you can't buy, disrupted consumer habits rendered as AI slop. 6:02 min, silent.
You Are Giving Universe. You Are Giving Universe (YAGU) starts as a set of short vertical loops that borrow TikTok AI how-to pacing while the “lesson” never fully arrives. Literally, how to eliminate all human/thought from your workflow/lifeflow.
Thrifted 80s/90s stereo cabinets "haunted" with AI plagues — projected onto bubble-wrap at Current Space.
HD video for the Stasseo installation — Greber's "stained-glass video," layered and looped. Excerpt; full length 12:08.
One channel of the Primer video installation — a skeleton commercial filled with Greber's own mystic agenda.
One channel of the Prospect 1.5 installation conflating tarot and "Deal or No Deal" — a flame-eyed cat as the Devil, a suitcase of toxic fruit. Reviewed in Art in America.
A mock product spot for the Pumpkin Pencil™ — "the most important step in our quest to liberate consciousness from these biological prisons we call bodies."
A self-produced publicity video in which Jonathan Traviesa plays Dave Greber — combating rumors that the "Grebster" was losing a battle against pretension.
A lone soldier hunched in the palmettos, a tiger deity, distant violence — an allegory built from pinball graphics, 90s action films, and Rousseau. Infinite loop.
Cats, bedding, and tableware drop in perpetuum onto a tabletop — a looping parable about existence... or does it? Infinite loop.
A phone-shot "video selfie" from the Appalachian Trail — Greber walks the woods narrating his life lived through social media. 4 min.
A charismatic reality-TV host channels not corporate will but a mystic vision — can corrupt media languages expand consciousness? Infinite loop.
A philanthropic, rollerblading talk-show host hits the streets to help everyday people with their existential issues. The sequel.
A phenomenally addictive single-channel loop — somewhere between a pop video, a video game, a magician's act, and a Dutch still life. 2:00 min. Part of the Rhizome Artbase collection.
The full third volume of the YCRtSOoaS trilogy — mall shoppers guided to parse "wants" from "needs" and the esoteric truth behind their familial desires.
Mall shoppers get help parsing "wants" from "needs" — a tangent spun off the YouCantRipTheSkinOffOfASnake trilogy.
An epic poem disguised as an educational video, tracing the life cycle of a Casebearer moth — language, voices, and visuals made with nacent AI models.
Dripping orbs into a screaming hourglass, collecting universes to feed an insatiable clock. 2:56 loop.
A faux wellness-resort ad ("Deltoid") built almost entirely from scripted verbatim from a real human Instagram story. 1:37 min.
One third of the three-channel Primer installation — a skeleton commercial that exposes advertising's manipulations while making you laugh.
